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Displaying from Wednesday, November 14, 2012
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November 2012
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Thursday 15 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar Series: Tissue Engineering Approach Towards Scar Reduction Following Burn Injury
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Skin is the largest organ of human body. One of the major traumas to the skin is caused by burn injuries. Over a 170,000 people sustain burn injuries each year in Australia alone, of which majority are children. There are a number of possible treatments available clinically and their applicability (...)
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Thursday 22 |
The Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA) provides local researchers and students in biology and biomaterials with access to infrastructure and expertise across imaging (small animal, optical, confocal, 3-D and electron microscopies), analytical (elemental, isotopic, and (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Special Plant Biology Seminar: Peta Clode (CMCA): "The CMCA: An old dog with new tricks" : CMCA now offers many new and exciting opportunities for bio-researchers.
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The Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA) provides local researchers and students in biology and biomaterials with access to infrastructure and expertise across imaging (small animal, optical, confocal, 3-D and electron microscopies), analytical (elemental, isotopic, and (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - New insights into the proteome of the transcriptionally active chromosome from spinach chloroplasts : Chloroplasts possess their own DNA (ptDNA), which is packaged with proteins proteins into structures analogous to bacterial chromosomes, termed nucleoids or plastid nuclei.
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Dr Melonek completed her PhD in 2010 in Plant Cell Biology at University of Kiel, Germany. She continued her work in Kiel for the next 1.5 years but recently moved to Perth to join the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at UWA. Her research will focus on characterization of proteins (...)
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Monday 26 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series: : W/Prof John Newnham presents "Improving lung health by preventing prematurity"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Improving lung health by preventing prematurity" by W/Prof John Newnham, Head of School, School of Women's and Infants' Health,
University of Western Australia.
A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
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Tuesday 27 |
This course will take you through the basics you need to do statistical analyses in R, a powerful freeware statistical package.
The course will cover basic statistics such as t-tests, regression and ANOVA as well as producing high quality graphics.
The course is hosted by the (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Respiratory load-induced cardiorespiratory failure : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Respiratory loads have long been used to stress the respiratory muscles. When these loads cause failure, however, this has been attributed to inadequate pressure generation by the respiratory muscles, especially the diaphragm. Recently, we discovered that in a rat model of load-induced (...)
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Thursday 29 |
The course is designed for people with knowledge of basic statistics who want to learn more about designing and analysing experiments.
It will cover material ranging from a review of simple one-way ANOVA, to more complex designs and analyses including crossed and nested factors with (...)
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December 2012
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Tuesday 04 |
9:00 - COURSE - Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling : A Short Course using AMOS and Mplus
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SEM is used widely by researchers to test complex relationships among observed (measured) and latent (unobserved) variables.
This course will introduce you to SEM and also covers issues relating to model specification, identification and estimation, assessing model fit (goodness-of-fit criteria) (...)
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Monday 10 |
The course is designed as a comprehensive coverage of applied SEM techniques using the Mplus statistical software package. Mplus offers a general modelling framework that allows both the modelling of cross-sectional and longitudinal data using observed variables that are a combination of continuous (...)
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Wednesday 12 |
13:00 - CONFERENCE - Occupational and Environmental Risk Assessment Half Day Conference : Perth Epidemiology Group brings to you the half day conference: Occupational and Environmental Risk Assessment
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*Advanced methods in exposure assessment and epidemiology
*Methods for combining exposure assessments and epidemiological models for use in risk assessment and risk prediction
*Use of molecular markers in the identification of occupational and environmental risk factors
*Heat stress and (...)
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Thursday 13 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar Series - 13 December @ 4PM: "Non-medical applications of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)" by Michael Johns
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This presentation will consider the use of MRI techniques to explore some of the following topics:
Flow in porous media (reactors and rock cores), flow in rheometers, fouling of desalination membranes, crystallisation/freezing processes and moisture adsorption by foodstuffs.
It will conclude with (...)
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Wednesday 19 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - How multisensory neurons in the auditory brainstem contribute to tinnitus : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Speaker:
Professor Susan Shore from the Department of Otolaryngology, University of Michigan has been working in the field of Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of the auditory system for more than two decades. Much of her work has focused on the role of neural connections from other (...)
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January 2013
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Tuesday 15 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Natural compounds as inhibitors of the 10 hallmarks of cancer : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Raine Lecture
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Marc Diederich was awarded his PhD in molecular pharmacology in 1994 by the University Henri Poincaré Nancy 1, France. After training at the University of Cincinnati, USA, he focused his research on cancer and leukemia cell signaling pathways and gene expression mechanisms triggered by natural (...)
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February 2013
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Tuesday 05 |
Inaugural Meeting of the WA Flow Group. Presentations by:
Dr Senta Walton (Pathology & Laboratory Medicine UWA) "CD4+ T cells during MCMV infections'; Fiona Robins (Pathwest, Haematology) "CS&T application settings in diagnostic flow"; Dr Matt Linden (CMCA, UWA) "Flouris (...)
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Thursday 07 |
8:20 - SYMPOSIUM - DOHaD-Microbiome symposium : An exploration of the association between the microbiome and metabolome and the early life origins of health and disease
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This free symposium, open to all, has been organised by the microbiome working group of the DOHaD Consortium. A total of 16 speakers from throughout the University will cover a range aspects relating to metagenomics/metabolomics and early life origins of health and disease. Please RSVP for catering (...)
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Monday 18 |
The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA).
Subsidised rates are available for (...)
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Tuesday 26 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - The many shades of BARD1 in development and disease : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: For over more than a decade the research on BARD1 was a side-product of the research on the breast cancer gene and protein BRCA1. Co-expression of both proteins in most tissues, their similar structure, the same phenotypes in knock-out mice, and the hetero-dimeric complex formation of (...)
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Wednesday 27 |
Mitochondrial responses to salinity in wheat and
Identification and characterisation of novel molecular regulators involved in phosphate metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa
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March 2013
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Tuesday 05 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - iVEC Supercomputing : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: This presentation will introduce you to the resources and expertise iVEC can provide to support your research. iVEC is encouraging the use of supercomputing, large scale data storage and visualisation for WA researchers. This is achieved by making available facilities and expertise to (...)
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